Mastodon sucks, but I don't let it
jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu
When it's really nice to have a GitHub account
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There's no denying that #
Mastodon is far from perfect. Not only from the point of view of people who have only just arrived from #
?, believing that Mastodon is "? without Musk", but especially from the point of view of the users of the old #
FederatedSocialWeb projects.
This applies even more if Mastodon's shortcomings actually have an impact on #
Friendica or #
Hubzilla users.
Now, I could go to my Hubzilla channel and post about how Mastodon sucks, how it does so even all the way across the #
Fediverse.
But I don't have to. For I have a GitHub account. In fact, I don't use it to upload any code. It's purpose-made for reporting issues only.
So if Mastodon's use of summaries as content warnings doesn't blur images under posts that come from outside, what do I do? I check GitHub if a bug report has been filed already. Turned out
there is one, filed just last month. So I added a comment and explained it a bit further as far as I can judge it.
Then I thought it'd be nice if Mastodon had something like the NSFW app on Hubzilla. But it does, technically, namely its word filters which have the option to hide a post behind a content warning. They were introduced with Mastodon 4. They're actually more powerful than any filters on Hubzilla.
But they're also much more inconvenient. You have to create and configure one filter for each keyword or hashtag that you want to filter. Nice for übergeeks, but borderline impossible to use for casual users, especially those on phones. No wonder next to nobody uses them, and everyone relies on people putting content warnings where a summary should be. For comparison: Hubzilla's NSFW app isn't configurable, but it's one filter for everything with one text field for everything that even supports RegEx. You can copy-paste and share entire filter strings if you want to.
So I suggested
filter presets for content warnings that could simply be clicked on and off. Should they end up in master, you're invited to pat my digital shoulders. Should they not, at least I've tried.
